tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19971288.post2014481800641137051..comments2023-09-27T11:46:51.850+01:00Comments on The Real Teardrop: Password SecurityMr TempleDenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03602088605945056397noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19971288.post-58801472937102406712007-06-09T13:34:00.000+01:002007-06-09T13:34:00.000+01:00I remember back in the 80s the place I worked had ...I remember back in the 80s the place I worked had a networked system between their branches. The amount of utterly stupid passwords set on it were laughable, I cracked a number easily myself because they were obvious like favourite football team (being Glasgow at the time you can imagine two teams came up regularly as passwords), their car, wife, kid's name... Even the group's chief accounts exec did this and, of course, they didn't take kindly to being advised that they needed to up their password ideas - my fault for pointing out their stupidity, not theirs for being eejits of course.<BR/><BR/>Even in 1988 I knew how stupid that kind of approach was, 20 years on and idiots still do it.And even more depressing and stupid are the many who have set up wifi broadband but never even added a simple password of any sort to secure it! Mind you, since the government did the same with the mess of the new junior doctor system maybe we should be easy on the poor folks who have obviously been dining exclusively on retard sandwiches again.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257155435655575336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19971288.post-26133704593420782512007-05-24T15:32:00.000+01:002007-05-24T15:32:00.000+01:00http://www.cio.com/article/111850Howdy Teardrop, ...http://www.cio.com/article/111850<BR/><BR/>Howdy Teardrop,<BR/> My name is Al Sacco and I'm a writer with CIO.com. We recently posted a product review of a password manager that not only securely stores your passwords, but can also generate strong passwords of up to 14 characters. You can even set "schemas" to control the order of specific characters in the passwords the device generates. It's designed to thwart both dictionary and brute force attacks, which you mention in your entry. I thought you and your readers might be interested. <BR/><BR/>http://www.cio.com/article/111850AZA43https://www.blogger.com/profile/03702599170464114651noreply@blogger.com